SAP Tax Manager, Global Trade Services (GTS)

Global Trade Advisory Practice Opportunity

As a practitioner within Deloitte's Global Trade Advisory Practice, you'll have the opportunity to help clients get the most from their SAP investments and help position businesses for the evolving digital economy. Ready to reimagine your career possibilities? Deloitte can show you what it takes to explore an entire universe of ideas, possibilities, and opportunities and help make an impact that matters with SAP solutions.

Work you'll do:

• Deliver complex projects in a fast-paced, team environment
• Lead and assist Customer and Sales Operations pursuits and practice development initiatives
• Promote and participate in forums for sharing expertise, strengthening Deloitte's collective knowledge, and helping resolve our clients' challenges
• Collaborate on innovative solutions to bolster the future of the practice
• Develop your knowledge of and gain project experience in SAP's newest and future solutions such as SAP S/4 & SAP GTS, Edition for HANA

The team:

Our Global Trade Advisory practice is a national practice within Deloitte Tax LLP's International Tax business and advises U.S. and foreign multinational companies on global import and export strategies, compliance, and trade automation. Our team focuses on advising, implementing, and operating SAP Global Trade Services (GTS) solutions with an innovative mindset which delivers tangible business outcomes for our clients. Professionals will have hands-on access and exposure to the latest technologies and thought leaders. We work with clients who want us to bring design thinking into the future of their technology-enabled business processes to improve their ability to react on the digital world and enable scalability, remove performance barriers, enable innovation, and modernize core systems and reimagine their business with SAP digital solutions.

Responsibilities include:

• Perform assessments of existing information systems, and identify gaps between business requirements and/or current process/system capabilities during workshop sessions with business users
• Working with clients to assess and deploy technology solutions to enable international trade management operations
• Planning and compliance assistance, and exploration of automated import and export solutions
• Develop customized solutions and draft functional design documentation utilizing strong skills in logical thinking, decision making, problem solving, and attention to detail
• Support new business processes around global trade and other areas such as supply chain and other key functions
• Deliver & provide implementation support for complex projects in a fast-paced, team environment
• Promote and participate in forums for sharing expertise, strengthening Deloitte's collective knowledge, and helping resolve our clients' challenges

Qualifications required:

• Ability to perform job responsibilities within a hybrid work model that requires US Tax professionals to co-locate in person 2-3 days per week
• Minimum 5 years' relevant SAP consulting or industry experience
• Experience implementing one or more of the following SAP GTS Modules:
• Compliance Management
• Customs Management
• Trade Preference
• Limited immigration sponsorship may be available
• Technical or functional lead on at least 2 full-lifecycle SAP implementation
• Operational/process design awareness, executive presence, strong analytical and critical thinking skills with the ability to solve complex problems and easily communicate findings
• Prior implementation or support work experience with SAP GTS
• Experience with one or more SAP ECC or S/4 modules: SD, MM, LE
• Bachelor's degree in a legal, business or technology related field
• Ability to travel up to 10%, on average, based on the work you do and the clients and industries/sectors you serve
• One of the following active accreditations obtained:
• Licensed CPA in state of practice/primary office if eligible to sit for the CPA
• If not CPA eligible, one of the other designations listed below based on role requirements and business approval:
• Licensed attorney
• Enrolled Agent
• Certifications:
• US Customhouse Broker's License
• CUSECO (Certified U.S. Export Control Officer)
• Where applicable, non-US citizen qualifying credentials:
• Foreign equivalent of the above certifications
• CUSICO (Certified US Import Compliance Officer)
• Professional Accreditation in EU Customs Law (post masters)
• Technology Certifications:
• CBAP - Certified Business Analysis Professional
• Certified SAFe Lean Portfolio Manager
• Certified SAFe Architect
• Certified SAFe Agile Software Engineer
• Certified SAFe Product Owner / Product Manager
• Certified SAFe Agilist
• Certified SAFe Advanced Scrum Master
• Certified SAFe® Scrum Master
• Certified SAFe® DevOps Practitioner
• Certified SAFe® Practitioner
• Microsoft Certified Solutions Developer (MCSD)
• Microsoft Certified Solutions Expert (MCSE)
• Professional Scrum Product Owner (PSCPO) - SCRUM.org and Project Management Professional (PMP)
• CBAP - Certified Business Analysis Professional
• Program Management Professional (PgMP)
• Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO)
• Professional Scrum Developer™ (PSD)
• Certified Scrum Developer (CSD)
• QAI Global Institute Certification
• Open Group Certified Architect (Open CA)
• Open Group Certified IT Specialist (Open CITS)
• IASA's Certified IT Architect (CITA) (Level F or A)
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect
• Microsoft Azure
• Microsoft MCSD Certification
• MCSD: Web Applications
• MCSD: SharePoint
• MCSD: Application Lifecycle Management Solutions Developer
• Certified Secure Software Lifecycle Professional (CSSLP) -(ISC)2
• Oracle Certified Professional + Java: Java EE Enterprise Architect 5+, Java SE 5+Programmer, Java EE 5+ Web Component Developer
• ISTQB (International Software Testing Qualifications Board)
• UX or UX Master Certification
• Alteryx Designer- Advanced Certification
• Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP)
• Certified Ssecure Software Lifecycle Professional (CSSLP)
• ASQ - American Society for Quality - Software Quality Engineer
• SEI - Software Engineering Institute Certification
• Lifecycle Management and Advanced Functional Testing Certifications (HP)
• Project Management; Professional (PMP)
• Six Sigman (Green or Black Belt)
• ITIL Certification
• Other: Vendor certification for management of implementations (Oracle, SAP, Thomson Reuters, etc.) or relevant industry certification such as Microsoft Certified Solutions Developer (MCSD), AWS (Amazon Web Services) or GCP (Google Cloud Platform)
• Preferred:
• Education with SAP focus (any of the following): S/4 or ECC Sales and Distribution, Order to Cash, Procure to Pay, Material Master, Transportation Management
• Software aptitude in PowerPoint, MS Project, Access, Excel, and/or Visio
• Experience presenting to clients or other decision makers
• SAP SD/MM, S4HANA or similar certifications
• Knowledge of export regulations including ITAR/EAR
• Demonstrated interest in international trade or international business
• Strong research, writing, verbal communication, and project management skills
• Ability to work with ambiguity
• Ability to bring 'out of the box' solution design that is aligned to leading practices and differentiated business outcome
• Understanding of end-to-end processes and attention to detailed design
• Strong